story: Deep into the night, the bus pulled in to a Howard Johnson's restaurant and everybody got off the bus except Vingo. The young people began to wonder about him , trying to imagine his life. One of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself. After a long time, slowly and painfully, he began to tell his story. He had been in prison in prefix = st1 /New Yorkfor the last four years, and now he was going home. 
  
  "Well, when I was in prison I wrote to my wife. I said, 'Martha, I understand if you can not stay married to me'. I said I was going to be away for a long time, and that if she couldn't stand it , if the kids kept asking questions, if it hurt her too much, well, she could just forget me . Get a new young man---she's a wonderful woman---and forget all about me. I told her she didn't have to write to me and she didn't. Not for the three and a half years." 
  
  "Last week, when I was sure freedom was coming through, I wrote to her. I told her that if she had a new young man, I would understand. But if she didn't, if she would take me back, she should let me know. We used to live in the town,Brunswick, and there's a great big oak tree just as you come into the town. I told her if she would take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and if she didn't want me, forgot me, no handkerchief and I'd keep going on through." 
  
  Soon all the others were in it. When they were 20 miles fromBrunswick, the young men took over window seats on the right side, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face into the ex-con's mask. Then it was 10 miles, and then 5, and the bus became very quiet. 
  
  Then suddenly all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and shouting and crying, doing small dances. All except Vingo.
questions: What restaurant did the vehicle pull into?
questions: What type of vehicle was it?
questions: Was it easy for him to tell his tale?
questions: Where was he headed?
questions: What was he sure of last week?
questions: How far from the city were they when they took window seats?
questions: What city were they headed to?
questions: Who on the bus didn't get up to celebrate?
questions: Where had he been in prison?
questions: How close were they when the bus became quiet?
questions: Who was his wife?
questions: What did he do to his wife?
answers: Howard Johnson's
answers:  Howard Johnson's 
answers: a bus
answers: bus 
answers: no
answers: slowly and painfully,
answers: home
answers: home
answers: freedom was coming through
answers:  freedom was coming through
answers: 20 miles
answers: 20 miles
answers: Brunswick,
answers: Brunswick,
answers: Vingo
answers: Vingo
answers: New York
answers: New York
answers: 5 miles
answers: 5
answers: Martha
answers: Martha
answers: he wrote to her
answers: wrote to my wife